Vista - iPhone + disk crash

Has anyone experienced this? I was running an HP e6700 system, vista
ultimate, RAID 0 configuration, WD2500 drives. After loading iTunes and
hooking my new iPhone up, the system reported one raid volume failed. Shortly
thereafter the motherboard tried to automatically load a bios update. The
computer locked. HP subsequently replaced the MB and HD. Due to the loss of
one disk I had to do a fresh Vista install.

I then set up a RAID 5 system last week with four 250G hard drives to make
certain if it crashed again I was more than protected this time. Everything
was fine. Feeling confident, I downloaded iTunes (do you know where this is
going yet?) hooked up my iPhone. Downloaded a bunch of podcasts. Was just
finishing downloading the nightly new video and crash, the system restarted
with no shutdown. I lost two hard drives according to the RAID configuration
screen. Through some effort I have the system up and running on three drives
at the moment and am replacing the failed drive this morning.

I will say that the drive that failed was a Samsung 250G drive that HP sent
in place of the previously failed WD2500JS. I tried to tell them there might
be an inconsistency between brands based on what their own in house tech told
me but they insisted it made no difference as long as they were the same
size.

The question is has anyone experienced anything similar? And is it wildly
possible for the iPhone to take down hard drives, or is this just an amazing
coincidence?

If you are using a Raid I would use the same make and model disk.


"Larry@avstim.com" <Larryavstimcom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Has anyone experienced this? I was running an HP e6700 system, vista
> ultimate, RAID 0 configuration, WD2500 drives. After loading iTunes and
> hooking my new iPhone up, the system reported one raid volume failed.
> Shortly
> thereafter the motherboard tried to automatically load a bios update. The
> computer locked. HP subsequently replaced the MB and HD. Due to the loss
> of
> one disk I had to do a fresh Vista install.
>
> I then set up a RAID 5 system last week with four 250G hard drives to make
> certain if it crashed again I was more than protected this time.
> Everything
> was fine. Feeling confident, I downloaded iTunes (do you know where this
> is
> going yet?) hooked up my iPhone. Downloaded a bunch of podcasts. Was just
> finishing downloading the nightly new video and crash, the system
> restarted
> with no shutdown. I lost two hard drives according to the RAID
> configuration
> screen. Through some effort I have the system up and running on three
> drives
> at the moment and am replacing the failed drive this morning.
>
> I will say that the drive that failed was a Samsung 250G drive that HP
> sent
> in place of the previously failed WD2500JS. I tried to tell them there
> might
> be an inconsistency between brands based on what their own in house tech
> told
> me but they insisted it made no difference as long as they were the same
> size.
>
> The question is has anyone experienced anything similar? And is it wildly
> possible for the iPhone to take down hard drives, or is this just an
> amazing
> coincidence?